Where does “abbreviatura” come from?
abbreviatura (Italian) comes from Latin abbreviatura, from Latin abbreviō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
abbreviatura (Italian): initialism
Definitions
- initialism
Ancestry of “abbreviatura”, step by step
abbreviatura traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Latin abbreviatura
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | abbreviatura | abbreviature, abbreviation; nominative feminine... |
| 2 | Latin | abbreviō | to shorten, abbreviate, abridge |
| 3 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 4 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 5 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 6 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |